Women And Your Finances Your finances don’t have to be a problem and you don’t need to be complacent and let your husband do all the finances You have to know what’s going on for your own self-preservation Money is a subject too easily walked around It’s one of the top two problems in today’s marriages You need to know about your money and finances and even your credit scoreMoney is sometimes avoided in hopes that you will find a ...

Obtaining Financing For A New Business Venture You have a concept for a business, you have written a detailed business plan, and you have submitted it to literally hundreds of banks, financiers and venture capital companies and everyone has declined any further interestYou cannot understand why absolutely no one is interested in your business venture After all your concept is unique and the financial statements that you have put together, as part of your business plan, shows that the proposed ...

Internet Scams And Fraud In A Nutshell In the last ten years, the Internet has gone from an odd curiosity embraced by computer geeks to a tool that nearly everyone finds indispensable We now use it for shopping, paying bills and all manner of other useful things, from finding sports scores to looking up recipes Unfortunately, unscrupulous criminal types are using the Internet for another, more malicious reason - to steal your money With the Internet becoming a bigger part of our lives, it is important that users be ...

Five Steps To A Comfortable Retirement - Without Winning The Lottery! Copyright 2006 Kristine McKinley You've probably heard about the Nebraska meatpackers who won the largest lottery jackpot in the United States last week One winner replied "I've been retired for about four days now" when asked what he would do with his winnings His response did not surprise me; I'm sure my reaction would be similar! What does surprise me is that many Americans believe that they cannot retire comfortably unless they win the lottery A survey by ...

Auto Leasing Basics There's a shiny new Pontiac G6 parked in your next-door neighbor's driveway Standing proudly next to it is a gleaming new Jeep Grand Cherokee This is the second time in four years that your neighbor and his wife have driven home on brand-new sets of wheels Unless you live right next to state lottery winners or an organized crime family, there could be a more plausible explanation for your neighbors' seemingly good fortune: they might be leasing What is automotive leasing? Automobile leasing is paying for ...

Hidden Tax Opportunity For Tax-deferred Investments Hidden Tax Opportunity For Tax-Deferred Investments As IRA and other retirement plan account balances continue to grow larger, often into very significant amounts, the need to understand tax characteristics becomes more critical These types of accounts offer the tremendous benefit of tax deferral, as everyone is well aware, but a "taxing" problem may remain upon the death of the participant This quandary is known as income in respect of a decedent Income in respect of a decedent is income to which the ...

Save Money And Get Rich Faster I just finished a Venti Latte at Starbucks, my fifth this week As I enjoyed my coffee and thought about my next "save money grow rich" article, it hit me like a ton of bricks that my coffee could be the subject of my article I started doing the math on the latte in my hand; Three dollars and forty cents multiplied by five times a week multiplied by fifty two weeks That's eight hundred and forty dollars I'm spending ...

How Can I Prevent Spam? Email -- we love to get personal email We need to get our business email But, do we need to get all the junk emails, too? Back in the early 1990's, I remember checking my email one morning and finding a really neat one -- some creative computer science student from Hawaii had sent me his résumé It took me a little while to figure out what had happened This was my first-ever piece of spam This kid had sent his ...

Are Aol And Yahoo Rabid Extortionists Or Just Plain Stupid? Today I met a client for lunch He runs a ticketing agency in Vienna and complained about confirmation emails not getting through to customers with an AOL or Yahoo email account In an article he recently stumbled upon, it refers to: "AOL and Yahoo are planning to begin charging what amounts to postage for those sending multiple email messages to their subscribers" Although they're positioning it as an anti-spam measure, it will have the effect of hampering ...

I Won The Lottery Welcome to Fantasy Island A fantasy filled with such vivid details that I have to share them with you I know that you have your own lottery fantasies but bear with me, while I reveal mine Let me set the scene I am at home on a late work-week day I have put my son to sleep and going through my nightly "get-ready-for-work" routine I check my wallet to see, if I have enough cash for the next day and I notice ...